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A new edition of Toland's History of the druids: - Free History Ebooks

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:;220 THE HISTORYlines <strong>of</strong> Horace* agree to no spot better, than <strong>the</strong>ilands we have been just describing.From l<strong>of</strong>ty hillsWith murmuring pace <strong>the</strong> fountain trills.There goats uncall'd return from fruitful vales,And bring stretch'd dugs to fill <strong>the</strong> pails.No bear grins round <strong>the</strong> fold, no lambs he shakes;No field swells <strong>the</strong>re with poys'nous snakes.More we shall wonder on <strong>the</strong> happy plainThe watr'y east descends in rain.Yet so as to refresh, not drown <strong>the</strong> fields ;The temperate glebe full harvest yields.No heat annoys : <strong>the</strong> ruler <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> godsFrom plagues secures <strong>the</strong>se blest abodes,CreecWs translation.The inhabitants, (that I may make a complete commentaryon <strong>the</strong> passage <strong>of</strong> Diodorus) are not to bemended in <strong>the</strong> proportion <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir persons : no preposterousbandages distorting <strong>the</strong>m in <strong>the</strong> cradle,nor hindring nature from duely farming <strong>the</strong>ir limbs* Monlibus altisLevis crepante lympha desilit pede.Illic injussjB veniunt ad mulctra capellae,Refertque tenta grex amicus ubera.Nee vespertinus circumgemit ursus ovile,Nee intumescit alta viperis humus.Pluraque fellces mirabJmur: ut neque largisAqupsus Eurus arva radat imbribus,Pinguia nee siccis urantur semina glebis;Utrumque Hege t^jroperaute Coclitum.jCpot/. 16, ver* 47.

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